New software analyses increase the reliability of measurements of retinal arterioles morphology by scanning laser Doppler flowmetry in humans

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 777-782

  Harazny, Joanna M ^a,b   Raff, Ulrike ^a   Welzenbach, Jürgen ^a   Ott, Christian ^a   Ritt, Martin ^a   Lehmann, Marina ^a   Michelson, Georg ^a   Schmieder, Roland E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

reliability; retinal arterioles; scanning laser Doppler flowmetry; vascular remodeling; wall lumen ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERIOLAR REMODELING; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINAL ARTERIOLE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

EID: 79952752114     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e328343c27a     Document Type: Article

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